Samsung Data Recovery is the most professional data recovery software for Samsung phones and tablets helping you recover deleted or lost data, including contacts, call history, SMS text messages, photos, and videos lost due to accidental deletion, factory settings restore, flashing ROM, rooting, etc. Here is the step-by-step user guide on how to recover data from Samsung device with this program.

To get started, you need to download Samsung Data Recovery first and install it on your PC. Then follow the guide below to restore lost data on Samsung device.

Part 1: Detect Your Samsung Phone or Tablet

First let the program detect your Samsung device. You can either connect your devices via Wi-Fi or USB cables following the instructions on the primary window.

For Android 3.0 to 4.1 (here 4.0 is the example), navigate to "Settings" > "Developer options", and then check "USB debugging".

For Android 4.2 or newer, enter "Settings" > "About device", and tap "Build number" for 7 times until you get the note "You are under developer mode". Then go back to "Settings" > "Developer options", and check "USB debugging".

Step 3. Turn on USB Storage

For the recovery of photos and videos, you need to turn on USB Storage on your device.

Part 2: Scan Samsung Phone or Tablet

After PC detects your device, click "Allow" to allow the program super user authorization when an app. Super user Request pops up on your device. Then, on your PC, click "Start" in the windows to allow the program to scan your device. It provides two recovery modes to recover files on any device: Quick Recovery and Deep Recovery.

Note:

1. Before starting, make sure the battery of your device is more than 20%.

2. Do not disconnect your device during the scan, or the scan will fail.

The program will start to scan lost contacts, call history, messages, photos and videos on your device automatically. It will take you for a while according to the storage of data.

Mode 2: Deep Recovery

Deeply scan lost and existing contacts, call history, messages, photos, videos and other documents on your phone. If you can't find the lost files with "Quick Recovery", use "Deep Recovery" to recover data on Samsung device with deep scan.

Deep scan will take relatively longer time for scanning. To save time, you can specify file type to start scan. By default, all files types are selected. You can selectively turn off the file types you don't want to scan.

Step 3: Start to Scan Your Lost Data

Click "Scan" to scan both lost and existing contacts, call history, messages, photos, videos and other documents on your phone. It will take you for a while according to the storage of data.

Part 3: Preview and Recover Data

After the scan, your data will be classified according to their categories, so you can easily choose any kind of them to preview.

After preview, check the files you want and click "Recover". Then choose a save path on your PC to save them.

Now all your lost data will be recovered and for contacts, text messages, call history, you can save them in TXT, XML, or Excel; for photos, save them in JPG, TIFF/TIF, PNG, BMP, GIF, and videos in MP4, 3GP, AVI, WMV, ASF, FLV,RM/RMVB, M4V, MOV, 3G2, SWF, MPG.

Note: You can only recover photos, videos, music and other files inside memory card if your device is unrooted. For rooted devices, all the files can be recovered: contacts, SMS, call history, as well as photos & videos. Click here to learn how to root your Android phone and tablet.